History Trivia / QuakeII

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The Quake 2 2023 remaster includes Quake 2 for the Nintendo 64 as a expansion pack. The notable thing is that this isn't a direct port, but the levels transferred ''to'' the id Tech 2 engine in their entirety, adding several features that the game ''never'' had, and also upgrading the assets to match the game it was based on.

** ''Ground Zero'' also features an item called Compass that was never implemented. It would later be used in the 2023 Remaster to help point to where the player needs to go next.

** ''Ground Zero'' also features an item called Compass that was never implemented.

** The 2023 remaster also adds muzzle flashes to every weapon which had long been a complaint about the game since its release.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aBJ0fw-43s There are several unused monster attack animations]]:

* TechnologyMarchesOn: In the game proper, one of the items you often have to retrieve are data ''[=CDs=]'' ([=DVDs=] were in their infancy when the game was released, not to speak of USB drives).

** Among the help files there are four pictures (five by counting the Power Screen, also present) of non-present items in the game, these items are called Cloaker, Invisibility, Goggles, Scope and Sights. Only the Goggles found their way into the game, by way of the ''Ground Zero'' expansion, where these goggles were retextured and called "IR Goggles".
** There's a cut weapon in ''Ground Zero'' called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOxe_IbhPuw Disruptor]]. The game's maps still feature entity spawn points for both the weapon and its ammo packs (and in certain points it can be enabled), but the weapon itself won't spawn at all. The weapon model seems to have served as an inspiration for ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena''[='=]s Plasma Gun, which explains why the [=Q3PG=] skin for the Super Nailgun in ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions'' is called the Disruptor.

*** Icaruses could brake mid-air, take off from ground, and hover backwards.

** The Nailgun shot sound was reused as the sound for the ETF Rifle's shot in ''Ground Zero''.

** There's a cut weapon called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOxe_IbhPuw Disruptor]]. The game's maps still feature entity spawn points for both the weapon and its ammo packs, but the weapon itself won't spawn at all. The weapon model seems to have served as an inspiration for ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena''[='=]s Plasma Gun, which explains why the [=Q3PG=] skin for the Super Nailgun in ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions'' is called the Disruptor.
** There's also an item called Compass that was never implemented.

** The player jump sound was reused as well.

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* DolledUpInstallment: The game was originally supposed to be entirely unrelated to the Quake series, and was only given the Quake name when the original name [[Creator/IdSoftware Id]] wanted to give the game turned out to be unusable for trademark reasons. Since then, the Quake name has mostly come to be associated with the Strogg story arc, but that's not surprisingly given the disjointed, {{random events|Plot}} ExcusePlot that was [[VideoGame/QuakeI the original Quake]]. ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena'' would incorporate characters from both games, which at least placed the first game [[CanonWelding in the same universe]], even if they otherwise had nothing to do with each other.

* DolledUpInstallment: The game was originally supposed to be entirely unrelated to the Quake series, and was only given the Quake name when the original name [[Creator/IdSoftware Id]] wanted to give the game turned out to be unusable for trademark reasons. Since then, the Quake name has mostly come to be associated with the Strogg story arc, but that's not surprisingly given the disjointed, {{random events|Plot}} ExcusePlot that was [[VideoGame/QuakeI the original Quake]].

** The Prox Launcher sounds from ''Scourge of Armagon'' were reused for the Prox Launcher in ''Ground Zero''.
* PropRecycling: The PS1 version recycles the opening and ending cutscene of ''Ground Zero''.

** The manuals and the pods near the respective starting points (and cutscenes) also reveal the names of both player characters from ''The Reckoning'' and ''Ground Zero'': Joker and Stepchild.

* CanonName: Although the hints are in a not-so hidden part of the first level, ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena'' officially called the PlayerCharacter "Bitterman".

* CanonName: Although the hints are in the first level, ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena'' officially called the PlayerCharacter as "Bitterman".

** The player jump sound was reused as well.

* DolledUpInstallment: The game was originally supposed to be entirely unrelated to the Quake series, and was only given the Quake name when the original name [[Creator/IdSoftware Id]] wanted to give the game turned out to be unusable for trademark reasons. Since then, the Quake name has mostly come to be associated with the Strogg story arc, but that's not surprisingly given the disjointed, RandomEvents ExcusePlot that was [[VideoGame/QuakeI the original Quake]].

** The player jump sound was reused as well.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The game was originally going to be a separated franchise.

* HeyItsThatSound: Several sounds were recycled from the first ''Quake'' game:\\
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The Nailgun shot sound was reused as the sound for the ETF Rifle's shot in ''Ground Zero''.\\
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The player jump sound was reused as well.